My wife and I just figured out that if you add the cost of daycare for our three children and the cost of gas I'm spending to get to work (in the next county),that it will cost us more than I make, and that we will infact have more money at the end of each month if I quit my job and stay home and watch the kids for the summer. ...and if your wondering, my wife makes more than I do, thats why I get to be the "quiter." Any hoo, looks like $3.80 a gallon is my breaking point.

We named our kid Eris Helena Strange. My wife was ok with Strange, but put the Helena on there in honor of her grandmother. I also know of a couple in New York who gave their child the middle name "trouble".

weird, I was just thinking of that instructable before I got to this post :{

Good times! Biohazard Leather

either this months or last months popular science has a cover artical about this very subject:

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-04/building-real-iron-man

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Those are my friends!!! If you have never been to one you are really missing something! They just started a satalite compitition in Austin.

ps: that was a goat:)

yep, the one with the gorrila is the one I remember

My daugter has 3 kidneys. Thogh, the deal with her though is that the two on the same side are attached and about half the size of a regular one, so she should probably just hang on to hers.

I thought it was a bed knob :(

From my own experiance I have found that it is not that they are more agressive than other breads (I used to be a utility meter reader and spent a lot of time in peoples back yards with out there knowlege), it is just that they are built like tanks. I had more problems with Labs, Dalmations, Dautshunds, and Chihuahuas than I ever had with Pitbulls (and I had a lot more pitbulls than other breeds). But the Pitbulls that were mean I would not even enter their yard while the nice ones were the sweatist dogs on the planet.

So a long time ago, I was really into studying “alternate” religions. I read about Buddhism, and Taoism, and Islam, and Wicca, and Modern Gnosticism. Now, while I was reading up on Aleister Crowley I came across a link between him and L Ron Hubbard. Turns out Hubbard and the famous Jack Parsons (founder of Jet Propulsion laboratories) were both members of Crowley’s religious organization O.T.O. But apparently Hubbard tried to swindle Parsons. Well this intrigued me, so I went and bought a used copy of Dianetics and tried to read it. I got about two chapters in before I had to put it down and walk away. Never in all my life (with the exception of a few passages out of “Mein Kampf”) have I read something so haltingly biased with large sweeping generalizations geared towards validating peoples xenophobic world views. Even better, I could not get this notion out of me that the book was backing up all this with some twisted form of Freudian psychology, which is funny when you realize that Scientology is the group that runs the Psychiatry Kills Museum in Los Angeles. Well this was about ten years ago. Then a couple months ago I had gone on a wikipidia read (following link after link) when I came across Jack Parsons and Hubbard again. While reading about initial reactions to Dianetics I came across a quote by Jack Williamson describing Dianetics as: “a lunatic revision of Freudian psychology.” I know I’m just tooting my own horn here, but man that validation feels good. Any hoo, for a psycoticly fun read, check out the Hubbard bio on Wikipidea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard

…and the one on parsons has some fun facts on Hubbard too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons

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-Brian

I have a paper bound first edition copy of a book called Hollow Earth from around 1960 (I would look to see the actual date, but I'm about to move and its packed). I got it from my grandmother of all people. The best part is the front cover which has a pick of a giant hole in the earth with spaceships coming out (I first saw it at my grand mothers when I was about 10 and then bugged her for almost a decade before she would give it to me). Honestly though, the idea that the earth is some kind of primitive form of a dyson sphere is just silly!

I like this because babies are suppose to really respond well to black and white contrast ( I made a mobile foe my baby using graph paper and a sharpie and she loved the crap out of it).